1. Chapter 1 & 2: Three Worlds Meet/North American Societies around 1492
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2. What will I learn in this lesson?
Early settlers of North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean
Complex societies within the Americas
Olmec, Aztec, Maya, Inca
Agriculture
Farmers
Crops
Technological advancements

5. Early Settlers Arrived as early as 22,000 years ago
Crossed a land bridge that connected Siberia with present-day Alaska
Came by foot and were hunter gatherers
Ice Age ended 12,000-10,000 yrs. ago

6. Complex Societies in the Americas
3,000 years ago: first American communities are established
1200 BC/BCE: Olmec
Southern Mexico
Mysteriously collapses in 400 BC/BCE
AD: Maya
Guatemala, Honduras, southern Mexico

8. Complex Societies in America
1200s: Aztec
Southern Mexico
1200 AD: Inca
2,500 mile long empire on W. South America
Each civilization will eventually be impacted by the arrival of the Spaniards and other European conquistadores.
Between 1492 (Christopher Columbus to the New World) to 1620 (Pilgrims in New England): 95% of Native Americans are killed
Disease
Murdered

9. Primary Source Accounts
"One day, in front of Las Casas, the Spanish dismembered, beheaded, or raped 3000 people. 'Such inhumanities and barbarisms were committed in my sight,' he says, 'as no age can parallel....' The Spanish cut off the legs of children who ran from them. They poured people full of boiling soap. They made bets as to who, with one sweep of his sword, could cut a person in half. They loosed dogs that 'devoured an Indian like a hog, at first sight, in less than a moment.' They used nursing infants for dog food.“
"Columbus took the title 'Admiral of the Ocean Sea' and proceeded to unleash a reign of terror unlike anything seen before or since. When he was finished, eight million Arawaks -- virtually the entire native population of Hispaniola -- had been exterminated by torture, murder, forced labor, starvation, disease and despair."

10. North American Societies around 1492

11. Land Use/Religious Beliefs
Native Americans did not believe in selling/trading land
Believe land was a source of life
“…we cannot sell the lives of men and animals, therefore we cannot sell this land” – Blackfoot chief in 1800s
“white” man does not understand this concept
Natural world filled with spirits
“Great Spirit,” “Creative Power,” or “the Creator” = supreme being
Example: Indians would thank the spirit of the bear for feeding the community or the spirit of the river for providing fish

12. Essential Questions
What issues would a hunt gatherer face crossing the Bering Land Bridge?
Explain why Native Americans were more susceptible to diseases and illnesses than Europeans?
Do you believe that for mankind to advance in civilization there must be a cleaning of a previous civilization?
Why was the concept of selling land odd to the Native Americans?
How do you believe the first contact between the Native Americans and Europeans went?

13. Shortcut From 1492 to 1620, 95% of all Native Americans were killed
North America =
Southwestern United States
On October 12th, 1492 Christopher Columbus spotted land